tition of this name-story comes from a man who claims to be Sec- 

 retary of an "International" Club ; who favors green eggs equally 

 with white ; and who says that iridescent blue on head and back is 

 absolutely foreign to the breed ; yet who favors a steely sheen on 

 a fawn duck, all over! A blind leader, surely. To blend steel 

 color with fawn is surely the last word of folly and inconsistency. 



Whether the Indian Runner Duck eventually makes good 

 all over this country or not depends not on the duck, but on the 

 breeders. If they permit a slump in size; if they send stale and 

 under-sized eggs to market; if they handle the birds for many 

 successive seasons without water, without proper care and with- 

 out new blood from other flocks which have more natural con- 

 ditions, they will ruin the Runner and her chances to make a 

 great opportunity for the American people on the farms. The 

 feed of ducks in a natural state consists largely of meat, as pro- 

 portional to other feed. I think those who have not had good 

 success have either had run down stock or else have not made 

 proper use of meat, and bone, in the rations. 



The southern city of Atlanta has for two years held a mar- 

 velous show, especially in the line of Runners. In 1911 it had a 

 wonderful exhibit as to numbers. But in 1913, the classes of 

 White Runners so far outdistanced even the American Standard 

 birds as to leave them almost unnoticeable, by comparison. 

 When a single show can get out an entry of a single type of Run • 

 ners counting well up toward 400, it is setting a pace hard to 

 equal. Yet even this is mixed with danger to the breed, because 

 the favored birds were very small, and English breeders are send- 

 ing green-egg White Runners to this country. 



GREEN-EGG WHITE RUNNERS 



The matter of the color of Runner eggs is getting worse and 

 worse. It has been said all over the country in the poultry perio- 

 dicals that the White Runners never laid any green eggs. Many 



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